Written by Ordey Díaz Escalona

Published: 10 October 2017

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"At the end of December 2001, when it was decided that the Open Tribune of the Revolution would take place here at the beginning of the year in the Central Square, the workers of the bakery, which is located at the square entrance, mobilize to paint and perform other decorative actions and is when the idea arises to realize a sculptural relief of Che.

Written by Super User

Published: 10 March 2017

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The westernmost municipality among the 14 ones belonging to the province. This municipality has 589,81 Km2 in territorial extension with a population of 54 561 inhabitants and a population density of 92,5 hab/Km2, is organized in 12 popular councils, 4 of them have urbane areas. The population is distributed of the following way: 39364 resident inhabitants at rural zones and 15197 in the urban. Limit north with the province of Las Tunas; East with the municipalities Gibara, Holguín and Cacocum; South with the provinces of the Las Tunas and Granma, and West with the province of the Las Tunas.

RELIEF

The relief is flat to the south, the north alternates small elevations and plains creating a beautiful landscape.La Rioja is the river of biggest flow intensity and length, the one that became sadly famous during the cyclone Flora whose floodings caused destruction at the zone.

Economy

The fundamental bases of the economy of the territory comprise the cattle development and agriculture. The production of viands stands out . There is an important quantity of little farmsteads of peasants organized in Agricultural Worker's Cooperatives and Credit and Services Cooperatives, in addition to Basic Units's of Cooperative Production that make up the base of the agricultural development of the province Holguín. In the cultural aspect, Calixto García's municipality is noted for, nationwide, for the Eastern Organ music and the peasant's Tenth.

The municipality is made up of several settlements, the most important: Mir, St. Agustín de Aguarás and Buenaventura , the last one is the administrative, commercial and cultural center .The creation of the municipality allowed incrementing the attention to the population: hospitals, polyclinics, Family's doctor offices and another installations of health cover the territory referring to the services.There is an ample development of the sports, the territory has several sport installations and trainers'   required. The popular passion for baseball and the local team Cowboys of West stands out.

HISTORY

In this territory began to form prematurely the Creole that with passing of the centuries you would give rise to the Cuban. Cattle raising and small agricultural exploitations made unnecessary the slavery like fundamental force for production. Slavery was fundamentally domestic and patriarchal. The crude exploitation of the Occident of the country did not exist .

Here resided a great quantity of middle size landowners and a crowd of peasants fundamentally. No existed important presence of Spanish immigrants'. The population was principally of Creole origin. Descendants of the first Spanish colonizers and in a lesser extent mixed with indians and African slaves. All of these contributed the conforming of habits that were evolving toward an each time bigger differentiation of the original trunk giving rise to the Creole.

When started off the war of 1868 practically all neighbors of the district backed up the revolutionary movement immediately. The territory became important center of the revolutionary actions. His advantageous situation between Holguín's, Bayamo's and Tunas's jurisdictions increments his importance in the military operations.

The territory were visited several times by numerous revolutionary leaders like Vicente García, Julio Grave of Peralta, Carlos Manuel of Céspedes, Máximo Gómez, Calixto García and all of them found support here.

This territory got included in Holguín's occidental brigade from March 1869. Very ready it was allowed to feel the influence of important figures of the revolutionary movement at the locality. The leader of bigger relief in the tender age of the dispute was general Julio Grave de Peralta and later his brother Belisario.

The neighbours of the district took part in important combats like the attack to Holguín's city the December 19, 1872 and the Santa María of Ocujal. In the last years of the 1868's War, general Belisario Grave de Peralta took the command of the revolutionary forces of this extensive district , which you accomplished an intense resistance against the great political military offensive accomplished by the Spanish colonialists. In front of the scarcity of weapons, the revolutionists adopted guerilla's efficient war. They hit the enemy with little and forceful attacks that surprised them and forced the enemy to maintain their forces disjointed at their positions. The territory was scene of combats and mambises's parades .

The century XX brought important changes at the territory. The central first railroad and next the central cart driver permitted that the zone link up completely to the economic activity of the country. The present-day municipality's territory became an important center of agricultural products with his children's quotidian effort. You develop the town of Mir once the railroad was entailed on and the one belonging to Buenaventura to the central road. In general the medical and educational lack of attention prevailed . Many peasants had immense large states in the meantime they did not have land, neither means of work.The frustration of neo-cologne did not destroy the patriotic spirit of the revolutionists of the town of the locality neither. The corrupt Governments received forceful answer.

Batista's dictatorship found from the first total moments rejection. They created the movement's cells here July 26. Carlos Borja Garcés, Mir's neighbor, the member went from the command that you enforced to the henchman Fermín Cowley. The first guerillas that operated on the plains found immediate support. The March 31, 1958 the quarters took from the revolutionary force directed by Orlando Lara Mir.The guerilla directed by Orlando Lara moved constantly at all this territory. The guerrilla fighters where the local participation was important created another groups themselves. In September 1958 arrived the big ball 1 of the column 14 under command of Oscar Orozco; he was wounded and he is substituted by Arsenio García.. The revolutionists shortly controlled fields. They caused different combative actions like the ambush to a jeep of the army between Mir and the central road, the attack and take down of Buenaventura's Comunication Radio station.

Written by Radio Angulo

Published: 06 October 2017

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It is 40 years ago that the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro Ruz gave to the Holguin people one of the educational works of greatest impact in the east of the Island, the José Martí Vocational School.